Video Conversion in Linux for DVD Creation

[Leo Mauler]

--- Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > A friend of mine recently converted my 3 
> > hour wedding video from VHS to AVI for me.  
> > I've trimmed what I could, but the remaining 
> > video is still two and one-half hours long.
> 
> Why are you doing VHS->"AVI"->MPEG-2? Unless 
> your AVI is raw uncompressed video (hundreds 
> of GB, IIRC), doing this is going to lose 
> quite a significant bit of quality.

I received it as AVI (XviD video, MP3 audio).  Frankly
I don't really care about the final quality as long as
the human eye can be fooled into thinking that it
looks nice on a conventional television.  That is, a
television which is not widescreen, and can be
described *without* using the numbers 720 or 1080.

The entire point is that the video file must become a
conventional DVD MPEG2 file, recordable onto a
conventional DVD, playable on a conventional DVD
player, and viewable on a conventional TV.  Then it
will be mailed out to my relatives, some of whom do
not own computers but do own DVD players.

Avidemux works great for simple editing of the file
into multiple clips, which in turn will be converted
into DVD MPEG2 files suitable for splicing together in
a DVD menu created by DVDStyler.  At least, this is my intention.


       
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